> On 27 Nov 2021, at 14:24, Olaf Meeuwissen <paddy-hack@???> wrote:
>
> Looking at the lesspipe manual page[1] (don't have less installed ;-),
> it seems that it doesn't support on-the-fly encoding switching but as
> far as dealing with compressed files, I guess there is no or not much
> difference.
>
> [1]: https://manpages.debian.org/bullseye/less/lesspipe.1.en.html

Ahh ok. I’ve never had to deal with alternate encodings. If I ever needed that I would probably just alias less to lv, assuming the UI is similar enough. Muscle memory is hard to overcome sometimes.